So you could say that all the MMAC – – it’s the SE Wisconsin’s regional chamber of commerce – – is doing is straightening out that record.

Here’s an alternative or supplemental analysis:

Walker and dozens of legislator-Foxconn boosters running for reelection this fall needed a boost of their own after the authoritative Marquette University Law School poll only weeks ago produced findings and news like this which no Foxconn backer wanted to see, let alone put into a campaign ad or talking point:

Voters think the State of Wisconsin overpaid on the massive Foxconn deal in spite of it bringing benefits to the Milwaukee area, a new poll has found.

In the most extensive polling to date on the multibillion dollar deal, the Marquette University Law School poll found that 49% of voters think the Foxconn Technology Group factory won’t be worth its cost to taxpayers and 38% think it will.

And this:

A majority of voters across political parties and regions of the state — 66% to 25% — don’t think the deal will help their local employers.

And this:

Statewide, 62% of those polled were very concerned or somewhat concerned that the Foxconn project will have an impact on water or environmental quality, while 32% were not worried.

And there have been other disclosures since the Marquette poll came out which also explain why the project might need a fresh shine, such as these, among others:

Look – – no one doubts Foxconn will spin off benefits, but let’s not pretend that the entire enterprise will be liability-free when it comes to the environmental, public health and budgets in SE Wisconsin, and statewide, too – – real issues which need to be acknowledged, can be quantified and subtracted from an otherwise one-dimensional bottom line.

11 thoughts on “Op Ed: Why Did MMAC Do Foxconn Study?”

Career Politician Scott Walker’s FoxCON job is the worst example of corporate welfare in Wisconsin, perhaps US history. 4.5 BILLION of our tax dollars in corporate welfare for a Taiwainese, I mean, Chinese company is completely idiotic! This will DO NOTHING for Northern Wisconsin and now Apple is seriously researching making its own screens instead of contracting with FoxCON anyways! Thus the crappy low wage no benefits taxpayer subsidized manufacturing jobs for Southern Wisconsin (and Illinois in reality) will be gone before they ever really materialize!
Career Politician Scott Walker and Donald Trump are no talent ass clowns and both must be removed from office asap. Vote Democrat and we can have 18,000 new jobs, a hundred million annually in new tax revenue and a much more egalitarian, safer society just by ending cannabis prohibition, getting Big Government out of the way of what the People in Wisconsin actually want, all without spending 4.5 Billion to do it! Time for a change Wisconsin!

They did it because the MMAC is a right-wing front group who has been wrong about economic policy for the last 20 years.

The facts show the Fox-con to be a horrible boondoggle that will help to screw up the state for years fiscally and environmentally, with no real benefit to anyone outside of a corner of SE Wisconsin, and a few corporate oligarchs.

So what does Walker and his MMAC allies do? Try to “create their own,reality” through anecdotes and GOPper-ganda like these fake studies and photo ops where real questions aren’t asked. Don’t fall for it.

Um, maybe because of the relentless pounding of every single left-wing interest group and ‘think tank’ out there, which is breathlessly highlighted by the sycophantic, slobbering toadies of the mainstream media?

It’s interesting that this comes out right after the Marquette poll showing weak public support for this. Also why do conservatives struggle with understanding irony? WashCoRepub slobbers shamelessly over every GOP press release and accuses the media of being sycophantic. Talk about no self-awareness whatsoever.

Is this the same Marquette poll that predicted a comfortable Clinton victory in 2016? Was the Fox Conn question proposed to the questioner in a negative light? Why did Senate and assembly Democrats vote for Fox Conn? Is there a bias on giving state funds to millionaire African American basketball players versus high tech Asians? Why did so many other states compete for Foxconn and Wisconsin cannot? When did liberals decide not having a technology company in Wisconsin was a bad idea After years of crying for new tech in Wisconsin.

@Russian Troll, if by “left” you mean Gary Johnson voters? It appears Republicans are now for Big Government subsidized “jobs” as well as handing over 4.5 BILLION dollars to a Chinese company in corporate welfare! That’s what Republicans call “small government” and being “fiscally conservative.” Everybody else calls it what it is, idiocy.
All Republicans stand for these days is their own tribal party which consists of nothing more than a bunch of hate and anger filled, Big Government Nanny State control freak wrinkly old white men, aka racists, misogynists, homophobes, Nazis, Confederates and drooling half-wit Trump Toadies like you that grovel, suck up and lick their boots.

Dump.Walker 2018
Dump ALL Republicans 2018
Legalize Freedom!

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